Christopher Hitchens on National Health Care, Socialism, and Ayn Rand

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[59acres]

David Frum is a Canadian shill for the Republican party. He tells out right lies about our Canadian health care system for his own selfish ideological egotistical reasons.My sister was diagonised 2 years ago with a very large brain tumor.THe diagonsis was made on a Saturday.She was operated on a Sunday and was home by Wednesday the day before Christmas and has made a full recovery. Mr. Frum please give up your Canadian citizenship and move to Texas.

[gspaulsson]

@c6gunner Hitchens moved to the U.S. not as a vote of approval, but to change things. Including the health care system, which in his opinion sucked. Watch the video again: he is quite clear on that. The poll I cited says that 87% of Canadians would not swap our system for the U.S. one. That is called empirical evidence, not a "religious sacrament". You imply that adopting the U.S. system would fix the "issues" with ours; few Canadians agree. I don't, having heard all the arguments.

[TheHuntress144]

@fyadcorp lol, my father is a native Canadian, though he's been living in the states for years, and insists that Alberta is the redneck territory. So, according to him, yes....it's a pretty fair comparison.

[drc0086]

Youtube should require uploaders to read literature on video editing. I can't hear shit.

[NecxZhor9]

lol, that first caller thinks capitalism is pro-business. Yep, increasing competition is good for businesses.

[NecxZhor9]

as usual the choice is between the faux-market healthcare of the us and socialized care. Choosing between puke and shit.

[nkelly1432]

The US healthcare system is great...if you are rich. Hopefully Obamacare will cover many of the "have-nots"

[fyadcorp]

Is Alberta the Texas of Canada? Canadians please confirm/deny.

[c6gunner]

@gspaulsson

lol. You really are an idiot. You still don't get the simple fact that your polls mean absolutely nothing.

[gspaulsson]

@gspaulsson My take on it is that our problems stem from three sources: funding cuts to med schools in the 90s in the name of balancing the budget; the CMA's resistance to accrediting immigrant doctors who would fill the gap; and the provinces have fragmented the system by grabbing more and more control. IMHO, we need a constitutional amendment to transfer health-care to the federal government, though Harper, playing to his Alberta consituency, is moving in the opposite direction.

[gspaulsson]

@gspaulsson Another instructive poll, also from 2009 (a lot of interest then because of the Obamacare debate) by Ipsos poll, 'U.S. vs. Canadian Healthcare: Poll Compares Citizens’ Experience as Patients'. Basically, patient satisfaction is about the same, though the U.S. system is twice as expensive. Canadians acknowledge problems with our system, but Soroka finds attitudes more positive than in previous polls, so people feel tha tthings are moving in the right direction.

[gspaulsson]

@c6gunner when you descend to name-calling and ridicule, you show that you are running on empty. I can't post links here, but I got the 87% number off the Queen's University website (PDF, author Stuart Soroka (2007)). The CTV News website has a 2009 story wherein: "The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey suggests 82 per cent of Canadians believe our system is better than U.S. health care". All polls are roughly in that range. You are in a small minority, so suck it up..